5 a Ok Oe ek eee ASONs PA ag ae last sh edt i aay i‘ Board os Site “All Seasons Park.’’ Court action was launche tw . ate City Council this week to call off the upcoming plebiscite, ile the fight goes on against the sellout to real estate interests. RK. Photo shows some of the hundreds of peop Unday to support the action of young people to FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1971 IIDAL WAVE OF PROTEST DEMANDS: HALT AMCHITKA TEST UG SCvoRo: EDITORIAL .e ful isa) sielame for 'Sp Vatj . Uv 1o te Tests Be : the present n the hydro ¢ Square on the “tue, Be erhment and its he 2,400. Hydro Authority. ation se mber local of the i Totherhood of otVthin rkers has done “ember PSSible since last Ment ofc a peaceful “lly eq eey he contract ave even drasti- Baeeccd thas... av AN em original wage h : Is has been to no “hich © six th the Months meh Rave Sught a settlement of P agains is a Nt an i eo the jor he BC ydro ; eee aye Head and its anti- o) Gordon Shrum, Com, Offer ade a formal ating has t,/@Stead,. the lations Of refus; €N a stubborn Out ~ It ig direct nego Dr. Shrum has taken the position that he will not settle with one union for anything different than Hydro has settled with other categories of workers in other parts of the operation. If Shrum is serious about lumping everyone who works for Hydro in one category he should also include the mana- gerial staff and himself. The stand is patently hypocritical, and is only meant to mislead the public. The union has charged that Hydro is refusing to negotiate because it is counting on the Socred government using Bill 33 and the mediation commission to force a settlement on them under threat of compulsory arbi- tration, Everything that has happened in the six months of frustrating attempts by the union to seek a settlement proves the union’s charge. This is further borne out by the statement this week of Resources Minister Ray Willis- ton who directly threatened the union with Bill 33 before a strike Nictoria to blame for dispute had even taken place. This was so crude an attempt to intimi- date the workers, that minister of labor James Chabot had to repudiate it within hours. Under the heading, ‘‘Does Victoria Want Peace or Conflict??? IBEW local 258's paper “Hotline” puts the issue squarely in a front page editorial: “We have been forced to this (serve strike notice) by the Authority’s refusal to bargain. with our Local and their obvious intent to use the compulsory features of Bill 33 against a ‘captive’ crown corporation. . . “The Premier of B.C. decides Hydro policy, appoints Hydro directors, appoints the Com- missioners under Bill 33 and can make their award final and binding. He is Management. It is a violation of natural justice for this public servant to have the power of judge, jury and executioner over US. See HYDRO, pg. 12 —Grant Richards photo le at the Four Seasons site at entrance to block the highrise real estate project. They d last week to block the project. Vancouver but City Council has retused the ee E TRADES) [COUNCIL > assures Fa Vol. 32, No. 22 New era in Can.-USSR relations . . . See page 5 Tribune SRINTT¥ SO 10¢ Tons of U.S. poison gas dumped near test site A tidal wave of opposition is rising to the U.S. government’s plan to explode a 5-megaton nuclear device at Amchitka Island this fall. Hearings held by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Alaska saw only officials of the AEC defending the upcoming test, while a parade of scientists, conservationists and citizens appeared to condemn the test and demand it be cancelled. The U.S. and Canadian govern- ments have been flooded by resolutions and letters demand- ing the test be called off. The urgency of the test being cancelled was pointed up last week with the disclosure that the U.S. Army secretly dumped 900 tons of Lewisite and Mustard chemical warfare agents in 1947 only 276 miles from Amchitka Island. The charge that the dumping took place came from Alaska Senator Mike Gavel and was:confirmed this week by the Pentagon. Fear is mounting that apart from all the other serious conse- quences that can follow from a nuclear blast in this earthquake- prone area, the explosion may also. release the deadly chemicals. Opponents of the test point out that although there was never any sense to the tests before, it makes even less sense in view of the recent announcement by President Nixon and the Soviet government. On May 20 the two government’s announced a major breakthrough in nego- tiations to end the arms race. The announcement said that an agreement on the limitation of both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons could come before the end of this year. According to available information the projected Amchitka test is for a warhead for the Spartan missile. U.S. scientists appearing before the Alaska hearings of the AEC point out that not only is the weapon already obsolete, but in view of the prospect of an international agreement to curb these weapons this year it is insane to go ahead with the test this fall. Many groups in B.C. have protested the test. Peace organi- zations, municipal councils, the B.C. government, the NDP, Communist Party, labor, environmental groups, women’s organizations, and others, have demanded that the tests be can- celled. Part of the protest against the test is the sailing of a protest boat, the Greenpeace with a crew of 21, to the Aleutian Islands to protest the blast. Meeting last Sunday in Van- couver at its annual meeting, the B.C. Peace Council adopted a resolution which said: “The proposed 5-megaton — nuclear test set for this fall at Amchitka, code named Cannikin, is being widely protested on ecological and environmental grounds. Some of the hazards pointed out by scientists and other experts include the likeli- hood of tidal waves and earth- quakes; the leakage of radio- activity into the ocean currents to contaminate food stocks, and the possibility of fallout increas- ing the levels of radiation with consequent threats to health and even human survival. See AMCHITKA, pg. 12 B.C. Tel greed knows no limit See page 2